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Jun
24
2024

How to Add Subtitles to a Movie or TV Series

Reasons to Start Using Subtitles If you’re hard of hearing. subtitles are a lifesaver. They allow you to follow the plot or a movie or TV show without having the volume turned up to room-shaking levels. If you’re watching a movie in a foreign language, you need to use translated subtitles to understand the plot. For most people, subtitles are less jarring than dubbed audio because you can enjoy the original performance of the actors without getting distracted by out-of-sync dialog..

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Jun
24
2024

How to Watch Netflix on Your TV

1. Use an App to Watch Netflix on a Smart TV The world of Smart Television operating systems is a very confusing one. Ever since Firefox TV met its demise in 2016, there are four major smart TV operating systems still in use. These are Tizen, WebOS, Android TV, and Roku TV. As a user, that’s not ideal. Sadly, as you’d expect, the various app marketplaces for each OS are fragmented, with different apps available on different platforms. The good news, though, is that all four of the .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Record a Phone Call on an iPhone

How to Record Calls on iPhone Without Apps This is probably the quickest, easiest, and “dirtiest” way of recording a phone call from your iPhone. You’ll need another device with a microphone that can record (like an iPad, computer, or portable recording device) to make it work. Provided you’re in a quiet environment and can use your iPhone’s speakerphone, it’s simple to pull off: Call your contact and tap on the Speaker icon. If you have Bluetooth headpho.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Force Close a Program Without Task Manager

How to Force Stop a Program the Easy Way To force stop an application without using the Task Manager, you can simply use the taskkill command to do that. Typically, you would have to enter this command at the Command Prompt to kill a particular process. However, it’s clumsy to open up command line window every time an applucation stops responding, and typing the command every time is a waste od time. You can force close windows way much easier with a shortcut. Right-click on any space .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Run Command Prompt Commands With a Desktop Shortcut

How to Open Command Prompt via Windows 10 Shortcut To start, let’s explore how to open the command prompt using a Windows 10 shortcut. It won’t do anything right away; you’ll still have to manually type in the command you want to do. However, what we’ll cover here will act as the basis for the other commands we’ll cover in this article. First, we need to create a CMD shortcut. To do this, right-click in an empty space in File Explorer or the desktop. Then, go to N.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Compress a PDF, Reduce the File Size, and Make It Smaller

1. Third-Party PDF Tools Adobe Acrobat PDF Optimizer (Cross-Platform) If you have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer, there’s a tool within the application called “PDF Optimizer”. This is one of the best and easiest ways to shrink a PDF document. To get to this, open your PDF in Acrobat, click Tools > Optimize PDF. A toolbar with a few options will appear just above the PDF. If you click Reduce Size, Acrobat will apply default settings to your file to attempt to re.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Use the KonMari Method to Declutter Your Digital Life

What Is the KonMari Method? The KonMari method is a copyrighted term by Marie Kondo, who named it using the first few letters of her names. She brought the KonMari method though the book. You likely know her better through her Netflix show, where she visits American homes and applies her special method to help people clear their hoarded items. There’s a lot to master with the KonMari technique, including going through your worldly belongings in categories and properly ‘sending off&.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Use TikTok on Your PC or Mac

How to Use the TikTok Website TikTok’s desktop site is incredibly simple to use, and lets you casually browse TikToks right from your computer. Just keep in mind that you can’t download TikTok videos from the desktop site. How to Browse Videos on the TikTok Website When you head to the TikTok website, you’ll be greeted by the site’s landing page. To start browsing, simply click the Watch now button in the top-right corner of the screen. You’ll then get redirecte.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix Zoom and Other Video Conference Apps on Your iPhone

1. Allow Access to Your Camera and Microphone Apple encourages you to take more control over your privacy by letting you choose which apps can and can’t access the camera or microphone on your iPhone. Zoom, Skype, and other video conferencing apps usually ask for this permission in a popup when you first start using them. If you chose Don’t Allow when your video conferencing app asked for permission, your microphone or camera won’t work until you change your settings. Go to .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Use an Android Phone as a Webcam

Why Use Your Android Phone as a Webcam? You’re caught short. Your children want to chat with their grandparents over Skype. Or perhaps it’s your boss, wanting a teleconference to discuss that report you submitted. But you don’t have a webcam. Although they come built into many monitors and all-in-one PCs, not everyone has a webcam. Peripheral webcams are popular, but they can prove tricky to install and temperamental even when they’re set up correctly. The solution is.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Share Your Screen on Skype

How to Share Your Screen on Skype for Windows First, call a contact. It can be an individual or a group. It can be an audio or a video call. Once in the call, hover in the Skype window and click the two overlapping squares icon in the bottom-right. If you don’t see this, it’s because your Skype window is too narrow click the plus icon instead and then click Share screen. You will see your screen outlined in the Skype window. If you have multiple monitors, you can click the monitor.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Set Up Location Alerts in iPhone Reminders

Set Up Location Alerts This feature hasn’t changed a lot since its introduction, and can be use to trigger and alert for any old reminder item using your iPhone’s default Reminders app. First launch Reminders and create a reminder. You can arrange your reminder items on lists and color-code them, or simply stick them all in the default “Reminders” category. Tap the “plus” + button to create a reminder, or tap on another item in the list to use that for a loc.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Share Office Files Online With Docs.com

Sign In and Navigate The first step to using Docs.com is to sign in. You can create an account using an email address or phone number. Alternatively, you can sign in with your Facebook, Microsoft, or applicable work or school account. Once you have signed in, you will land on your Home page with sections for Journal, Documents, and Collections. Journal is a spot where you can post your thoughts, ideas, and stories. This is similar to a blog concept. Collections is an area for gathering conten.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Use WhatsApp Web on PC

What You Will Need to Run WhatsApp Web Largely speaking, it’s a simple process and you’ll have the necessary items at hand. But for the sake of thoroughness, here’s the list. An Android phone or an iPhone with a working rear camera. A laptop or desktop computer with any modern web browser, like Google Chrome. An active internet connection for both your phone and your PC. The latest version of WhatsApp.   How WhatsApp Web Works WhatsApp Web does not have all the.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Work Around a Broken Keyboard Key on a Windows 10 PC

Method 1: Remap the Key with Software Using Microsoft’s free PowerToys utility for Windows 10, you can assign the function of a broken key to another you don’t use often, like the Scroll or Caps Lock, or a function key. To do this, download Microsoft PowerToys, if you don’t already have it. After you launch it, click “Keyboard Manager” in the sidebar, and then click “Remap a key.” We’ll use Esc as the broken key in our example, an.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Get Someone Off Your Best Friends List on Snapchat

How Does Snapchat’s “Best Friends” Work? Your Best Friends list on Snapchat keeps track of the people you chat with most often. It appears at the top of your main friends list, making those users more accessible when you’re sending a new snap. But how does Snapchat calculate who your Best Friends are? It’s pretty simple. You may have noticed that every user has a Snap Score a measure of the total number of Snaps sent and received since joining. A similar score is.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Find Your Router’s IP Address

What Is My Router IP Address For? While some routers use text-based URLs, many use an IP address that you can use in your browser to access the device’s admin panel. In this panel, you can change settings, install firmware updates, troubleshoot issues, and configure your preferences. However, the only way to know your router’s IP address for sure is to directly check it through a connected device like your computer. Otherwise, you’ll be stuck typing in all the variations of c.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Get a Tethered Android Connection On Any Carrier, Anytime

A Note About Tethering The below apps will allow you to use the tethering feature without paying your carrier any additional money, but you’ll still have the same data limit you normally would. If you have limited data and go above your allowance, your carrier will charge you extra or throttle you as if you’d used the same amount of data from your phone. All the below apps do is bypass the additional fee that carriers charge to actually use this data from another device. Carriers s.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix Android’s Bad Performance and Awful Design

What is TRIM, Anyway? We need to explain what TRIM is, before elaborating on how the LagFix app eliminates latency experienced on Android devices: Your solid state storage device doesn’t actually erase files, even through you’ve uninstalled or removed them. This is a peculiarity native to solid state storage. Erased files are simply invisible to the operating system. TRIM command is a Linux executable that solves this issue by making erased files visible, and thus eraseable. If the.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Change the Boot Order on Your PC (So You Can Boot From USB)

Why You Might Want to Change Boot Order There are various reasons why you might want to change the boot order. For instance, you might have added a new hard disk drive and want to use it as your primary boot device; changing the boot order will enable you to install your operating system. Alternatively, you might have problems booting Windows. Setting an optical drive or USB drive as the primary device will allow you to use a disc, flash storage, or external HDD to provide assistance to recov.

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